"I came like a flash of lightning, and now I depart like the wind."
[736.] caked the sand. Hardened into cakes.
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[751.] Helmund. See note, l. [82].
[752.] Zirrah. Another lake in Seistan, southeast of Hamoon, now almost dry.
[763-765.] Moorghab, Tejend and Kohik. Rivers of Turkestan which lose themselves in the deserts to the south of Bokhara. The northern Sir is the Sir Daria, or Jaxartes. See note, l. [129].
[788.] And heap a stately mound, etc. Persian tradition says that a large monument, in shape like the hoof of a horse, was placed over the spot where Sohrab was buried.
[830.] on that day. Shortly after the death of Afrasiab, the Persian monarch Kai Khosroo, accompanied by a large number of his nobles, went to a spring far to the north, the location fixed upon as a place for their repose. Here the king died, and those who went with him afterward perished in a tempest. Sohrab predicted Rustum would be one of those lost, but tradition does not have it so.
[861.] Persepolis. An ancient capital of Persia, the ruins of which are known as "the throne of Jemshid," after a mythical king.
[878.] Chorasma. A region of Turkestan, the seat of a powerful empire in the twelfth century, but now greatly reduced. Its present limits are about the same as those of Khiva. See note, l. [120].